Man I wish I could be there. But I have anxiety issues with crowds so conventions are a no go.

Looking at the list I see no game discussion (not the happy kind) between some of the more "game idea" guys (Like Yahtzee, Jim, and Bob. Though those 3 do seem to share many other panels). Or am I missing something. I just think it would be interesting to hear there opinions on game related topics.

Wait! Normal people play the whatever?PHA+PGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9sb2NhbC1zdGF0aWMwLmZvcnVtLWZpbGVzLmZvYmJ5Lm5ldC9mb3J1bV9hdHRhY2htZW50cy8wMDA5Lzc5MDcvd2hhdGV2ZXJfbG92ZXNfeW91LnBuZyIgYWx0PSJpbWFnZSIvPjxiciAvPkJ1dCBoZSdzIHNvIGNyZWVweSwgdGhvdWdoIGhlIERPRVMgbG92ZSB5b3UuPC9wPg==

Sorry I've just finished that game and it was awesome, so I get very easily reminded of it, though the ending was odd, I think there is another ending, now I shall look for how to get it!

Also sad to hear Steve left, didn't catch that last Tuesday, I hope he does well in whatever he's up to now.

Obviously this doesn't apply to your comments on workplace e-mail, but in case you weren't aware, I thought I would bring up the case.

Thank you so much for the citation!!! :D It is a great reminder and I readily admit to not being a full-time practicing attorney for over 3 years now. IP and Internet law is such a rapidly evolving field that I am not always as up to date as I would like to be... especially when randomly discussing it wit friends and co-workers during a podcast ;)

That said, you are 100% CORRECT in that Warshank is considered a landmark case in US law since it was the first time 4th amendment protection was afforded to e-mail communication. Unfortunately, the facts of the case were TERRIBLE and rarely included in any case summary or journalist pieces (/cry). As far as I understand it (please correct me), the government asked his email ISP in secret to prospectively preserve Warshank's emails, contrary to their normal data storage procedures, on their servers, without his knowledge and without probable cause so they could have something to seize in the future. This made the private company an acting agent of the government. Long story short, since the 4th requires both a reasonable expectation of privacy expected by the person and society's willingness to except these expectations as reasonable, these emails were deemed protected since his ISP was not supposed to store them on their servers... and thus all expectations reasonable. But in the end, the government was granted access to the emails anyway and his criminal conviction stood. This case is only a 6th circuit ruling and nothing like it (to my knowledge) has yet to be reviewed by the supreme court. And as of now, this case is only applicable to non-cloud storage based personal emails. And all emails going

TL;DR: Private emails with no cloud-based storage agreement that is archived without a user's knowledge affords a reasonable expectation of privacy in the 6th circuit against the government. Cloud-based stored emails / communication services with no encryption services may not. Ever wondered why GMail, Facebook and the like has recently started pushing for HTTPS only use? This. Afford users encrypted communication, raise their privacy expectation to reasonable, and they avoid a deluge of user data subpoena and warrantless surveillance that they actually have to respond to. Use non-private emails services, like those owned by your employer, and your expectation to privacy in not reasonable and they have every right to read and turn over your communications to the government at will. Boo! :P

This one was a particularly good one. I often play a game while listening. First, couldn't do tetris to save my life because it was so engaging, then I turned to a favorite mainstay that I enjoy to kill an hour: mega man 2 and I actually died a couple of times! That hasn't happened in years and I've listened to really heavy, really serious topics and engaged it on an intellectual level before.

Nope, you had me entertained enough that I was falling into lava and spike pits and making me just go "what are you doing? You've memorized the entire level design, you know you need to wait here for the platform to come around, what on earth are you thinking... oh right, podcast."

So, great job, great podcast.

Oh, and just thought you should know, listened to this straight after listening to the Republican keynotes and Democrat keynotes at their respective national conventions. It was nice to punctuate the serious business tone of all four speeches with something more relevant to me, the common gamer: griefing.

I cant remember if I mentioned it at the time (I planned to, but I get distracted), but since you love that part of the job so much its probably worth me telling the story anyway: I had a pretty rough year last year, with a relationship breakup, some family trouble, and a close friend having to move away. It was closing in on what looked to be a pretty sombre xmas... And out of the blue I got sent a bunch of geeky presents, that arrived at my door just days before xmas. Having something nice happen, and a bit of good luck for a change, pretty much made my month. It was more than just a nice prize.

Just wanted to share that to hopefully return some good vibes. You guys rock, imo. <3

It has been almost a year since, but how did you like the Drizzt board game and books? I only played them once with family and would love to hear what you thought about about them :D

To be honest I havent been able to get a lot of time to play the game myself - Ive played a few times and had good fun, it reminds me a bit of gathering around HeroQuest with my friends as a youngster. The figures themselves are awesome, even if I dont get to play the game - I keep looking for chances to co-opt them in for some proper RPGs (along with the D&D setting book, which has seen some good use too).

And the RA Salvatore book... I actually havent gotten around to yet. Its on my list, but as the second book in the series I had to order the first book to read first, and Ive got about 3000 pages of epic fantasy books left on my "to-read" pile fighting for attention (See?)

Can Movie Bob or Yahzee come on one of these pod cast once in a while? also can you cut or at least lower the volume of the music? Both me and my friends listen with a earphone and we had to turn the volume down everytime the music plays.

Hey dude, you totally should read Gathering Storm and Clash of Kings first. When is Sanderson supposed to finish the Robert Jordan books soon? Memory of Light comes out in January apparently and you still have to get through Towers of Midnight.

Greg Tito:Hey dude, you totally should read Gathering Storm and Clash of Kings first. When is Sanderson supposed to finish the Robert Jordan books soon? Memory of Light comes out in January apparently and you still have to get through Towers of Midnight.

Ive been reading the Malazan books (the Steven Erikson one on the pile) first, because I was even further behind in that series. The pile started off with 2 more of those that Ive already gotten through, and theres 2 more that I havent bought to add to the pile yet. And to be honest its probably my favourite of the 3 epic series (Erikson, Jordan and Martin) at the moment.

Ill get back to Wheel of Time soon, but I have a bit of a habit of rereading the whooooole series for each new book, which has been great but ended up burning me out on it for a while. I need to overturn that impulse, and remember all the stuff going on in the books.

And then on top of that theres a few other authors I want to try out as well (Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson's non-WoT stuff, the second Lightbringer book from Brent Weeks, and more). Its a tough life being a reader...